The Tones of Neerpelt

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The Tones of Neerpelt

• Jörg Peters
• Radboud University Nijmegen

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Eindhoven
Dutch Limburg
Neerpelt
Maasbracht
Belgian Limburg
Maastricht
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Declarative, nuclear non-final
Accent 1
Accent 2 Venlo Roermond Hasselt Tongeren
Borgloon
Northeast Southwest
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Reading task

• Target words
• arm2 arm1 arm-SG arm-PL
• been2 been1 leg-SG leg-PL
• bal2 bal1 ball-SG ball-PL
• huus2 h??s1 house-SG house-PL
• mintj?2 mintj?1 mint-DIM mouth-DIM
• ?as gas
• ?ast guest

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Reading task

• Conditions
• pragmatic condition
• declarative
• interrogative (yes/no questions)
• continuative
• focal condition
• nuclear
• postnuclear
• distance of target word to end of IP
• non-final
• final

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Reading task

• Corpus
• Two speakers (male, 70 yrs., and female, 50 yrs.)
• At least one repetition
• 348 utterances (main test)

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Pitch contours

• Declarative, nuclear non-final
• arm1 arm2

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Pitch contours

• Declarative, nuclear non-final
• Pitch tracks in nuclear foot
• Pooled data, male speaker (N 8)

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Pitch contours

• Declarative, nuclear non-final
• gaas1 gast2

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Pitch contours

• Declarative, nuclear non-final
• gas2 gast2
• Male speaker

Downstep?
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Pitch contours

• Declarative, nuclear non-final
• mintj?2 late peak correlate
• Rotterdam

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Pitch contours

• Declarative, nuclear final
• arm1 arm2

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Pitch contours

• Declarative, nuclear final
• arm1 arm2
• Male speaker

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Pitch contours

• Declarative, nuclear final
• Pitch tracks in nuclear foot
• Pooled data, male speaker (N 8)

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Pitch contours

• Declarative, nuclear final
• gaas1 gast2

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Pitch contours

• Declarative, nuclear final
• gas2 gast2
• Male speaker

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Pitch contours

• Declarative, nuclear final
• Pitch tracks in nuclear foot
• Pooled data, male speaker (N 8)

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Pitch contours

• Declarative, nuclear final
• Pitch tracks in nuclear foot
• Pooled data, male speaker (N 8)

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Pitch contours

• Interrogative/Continuative, nuclear non-final
• arm1 arm2

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Pitch contours

• Interrogative/Continuative, nuclear non-final
• Pitch contours in nuclear foot
• Pooled data, male speaker

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Pitch contours

• Interrogative/Continuative, nuclear non-final
• gaas1? gast2?

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Pitch contours

• Interrogative/Continuative, nuclear final
• arm1 arm2

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Pitch contours

• Interrogative/Continuative, nuclear final
• gaas1? gast2?

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Pitch contours

• Nuclear condition

Accent 1 Accent 2
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Pitch contours

• Declarative, postnuclear non-final
• h??s1 huus2
• Male speaker

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Pitch contours

• Declarative, postnuclear final
• arm1 arm2

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Pitch contours

• Declarative, postnuclear final
• arm1 arm2
• Male speaker

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Pitch contours

• Interrogative/Continuative, postnuclear non-final
• arm1 arm2
• Male speaker

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Pitch contours

• Interrogative/Continuative, postnuclear final
• arm1 arm2
• Male speaker

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Pitch contours

• Postnuclear condition

Accent 1 Accent 2
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Duration
Acc 2 VV
Acc 1 VV
Acc 2 V
Male speaker
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Duration Cologne
Acc 2 VV
Acc 1 VV
Male speaker
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Intensity
Nuclear
Accent 1
Accent 2
Male speaker
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Intensity
Cologne Intensity drop
Accent 1
Accent 2
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Intensity
Postnuclear
Male speaker
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Phonological analysis

• Intonational contours
• Declaratives HLL
• !HLL
• Interrogatives LHH
• HLL
• Continuatives LHH
• LH0
• HLL
• HLH

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Phonological analysis

• Accentual contrast
• Declaratives, nuclear non-final
• z? hEt har twii arm1 b???oo??
  z? hEt har ?n arm2 b???oo??
• H L L
  Hlex HL L

Venlo HL L
HHlex L
Hasselt L H L
Llex H L
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Phonological analysis

• Accentual contrast
• Declaratives, nuclear final
• z?n twii arm1
  n?n arm2
• HLL
  HHLL
• En?n arm2
• HH(LL)

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Phonological analysis

• Accentual contrast
• Declaratives, postnuclear final
• z? b???eext h?r arm1
  z? b???eext h?r?n arm2
• H L L
  H L LH

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Synopsis

• Features shared with both eastern and
• southwestern Limburgian dialects
• Privative contrast
• Accent 2 lexical tone
• Accent 1 lexically toneless
• Contrast restricted to stressed syllables
• Duration used to enhance the contrast

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Declarative, nuclear non-final
Accent 1
Accent 2 Venlo Roermond Hasselt Tongeren
Borgloon
Northeast Southwest
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Declarative, nuclear non-final
Accent 1
Accent 2 Venlo Roermond Neerpelt Hasselt To
ngeren Borgloon
Northeast Northwest Southwest
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Synopsis

• Features shared with eastern dialects
• Accent 2 has lexical H
• Lexical tone after final boundary tone (cf.
  Roermond)
• Contrast restricted to syllables bearing an
  intonational tone

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Synopsis

• Features shared with southwestern dialects
• Tonal contrast
• Accent 2 postponed focal H tone
• Accent 1 non-steep fall
• Contrast on CVC syllables
• TBUs syllables
• No intensity drop (also questionable for
  East-Limburgian)

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Conclusion

• Accentual contrast in Neerpelt
• Mix of tonal features found in northern Dutch
  Limburg and
• in southern Belgian Limburg